Method of fertilizing vegetable growth.



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FALLS, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE TIIAIIITI'M' NEW YORK, N, Y,, ACQRPGRATION 111i uru'ruoo or FERTILIZING VEGETABLE GEO WTH.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented; Julyl 6, 1% El 12.

memoir, I I

Application filed May 4, 1910. Serial No. 558,319.

made at stutetl intervals, with the lvsll i' that the growth of theplants contuiuctl iu the pot coutz tin-ing my said mixture was, withinequal periods, twice to three times grealcr than that of the plantscontained. in the other.

M tests have satisfied for that nitrogen in t e particular formmentioned, in chemical combination with titanium, 'uuprecedentccllyfertilizee and stimulates plant growth underhrclimu'y ugricultm'ulconditions; also that the presence or me .tall ic titanitun-mayincidentally (mutt-unite to the more perfect accmnplishment oi till}?-rcsult.

My novel mcthoil of fertilizing and. stint-- ulating Vegetable growthmay he pruc'tically applied as or the u'oeetlur in the test aboveinentione it being umlc Loorl that the earth cfnployecl is notnecessarily pot To alt-whom it may concerto:

Be it lmcwu that It", AUoUsre Rossl, a citizen ot'qthe United States,and a resident of hicgmr Falls, in athe county of Niagara and Stuto'ofNew Yorlohave invented certain new and. useful improvements in ll/lcthodof Fertilizing Vegetable Growth,of which the following is aspecification,

I have found, in the operation of my proocsses for producingTorre-titanium, as do States, Noe. 609,41; and 648,439, granted to merespectively on August 23, 1898 and May 1, 1900,:13 a loy-protluct,certain uantities of nitricls of titanium, to w.it,".li,li Ti llL, Iluwe oiswverccl that such nitrogen "so plied per my Improved methodhereinafter 'lIlGSCIllOGd, of exceptionally fertilizing coil stimulating'Vegctlablegrow Illo'r example, on one occasion, as a test, llreclucedto powder a body of such nitrid, aoeocieted, in that particulurcase, With some of my suicl alloys of iron and titanium, fcrlotitcnium,produced by pcteutcd methods, in the proto of said nitrid with 50 to 40%of solo alloy, and thoroughly mixed. the some with earth, such as isusuall} employed for agricultural purposes, in. the proportion of about.5 to 10% 01 the said. powder to to of the said earth Ocelot twoeoutui-umsm pots,.of er uel size and, proportions, I filled. with earth;the other with an equal. hullt of said earth and said pmvclormi mixturein the aforesaid proper-clone In said conteru'xs' of each pet I thenplanted. substantially the some quantity of. similar seeds. il llllSfilll two, pots or containers with their contents Were thcresaidfertilizer containing nitrirl of titanium except in reasonable I amaware that nothing is more il'amiliur in the agricultural art than thee'uunloyment in a. fertilizer of nitrogen, or other of :ite compmmdsthan nitrid of titanium, to stimulate vegetable growth,- but I mu notaware that, prior to my said invention and my reduction thereof topractice, an; -.,l .c.mival compound. of nitrogen with niuul. has beenso employed, nor the ahtwe meus tloned combination of such couuomuuls oftitanium and nitrogen with metallic titre nium.

conditions of light, water,temperature, etc. The result was thatgermination of the seeds contained in the pot containing my said mixtureooctu'retl in about '7" days after planting, Whereas in. the other potcoutail'r ing only the said earth the germination did not occur untilabout 12 (lays after planting. (lbservations of the growth of therespechive vegctatious were thereafter repeatedly but in its naturalconditioh and status as.

1t lacing of course unnecessary to r-u'ipply my proximity to the ohmic.l

.Nhxt Iehiim flew and desire to sec fire growth which comprieessupplying to the by Lettersfil atent is tge afollowing, giz vegetablenitrid of titanlum. .1, The move descri e methodo stimuv :1 liltingVegetable growth which comprises E BOSSI? 5 supp1ying to the vegetable amixture of 111- \Vitnesses:

field of titanium and earth. WA TER D. EDMONDS,

"2. The method f stimulating: vegetable Gimme GRJMEAHSURES.

